ARTISTS
Elizabeth Laurence – recitation (Lady Sarashina)
Mike Svoboda – alto trombone with double-bell (“Alter Ego”)
Gérard Buquet – contrabass trombone with double-bell and sousaphone (“Shadow of Alter Ego” and “Moon”)
Blythe Holcomb, Nadia Hardman, David Hill (“Dream-voices”)
UMZE Chamber Ensemble, artistic director: Zoltán Rácz
Conductor: Gergely Vajda
Bösendorfer computer-piano programming by Vykintas Baltakas
Recorded by Rainer Lorenz, Karlsruhe
Piroska Molnár – voice (DCD Audio #8)
ABOUT THE ALBUM
As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (1999)
Sound theatre (in English)
Scenes from 11th-century Japan
Text from diary of Lady Sarashina (born in 1008, Japan)
English translation: Ivan Morris, Penguin Classics Ed. 1975
Libretto: Mari Mezei
Recording and mixing supervised by Péter Eötvös
Recorded by Péter Dorozsmai and László Reményi at Tom-Tom Studio, Budapest, 2001-2008
Tale (1968)
Realized by Péter Eötvös and Werner Scholz at Electronic Music Studio, WDR Cologne (1968)
Mixed and mastered by Péter Dorozsmai
DVD authoring: József Farkas
Music publisher: Edition Ricordi Munich (As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams), Edition Feedback Cologne (Tale)
Portrait photo: Péter Korniss
Cover Art-Smart by GABMER
Produced by László Gőz
Executive producers: György Wallner, Tamás Bognár
The recording was sponsored by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary
